Hotel de Saint-Aignan
The Hôtel de Saint-Aignan is a 17th century Hôtel particulier that has housed the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme since 1998 . It is located at 71 rue du Temple in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris , near the Center Georges Pompidou . The nearest metro station is Rambuteau on line 11 . The Hôtel de Saint-Aignan was included in the list of French architectural monuments in 1988 as Monument historique .
history
The building was constructed from 1644 to 1650 by the architect Pierre Le Muet for Claude de Mesmes, Comte d'Avaux, who was ambassador under Louis XIV and a signatory to the Peace of Westphalia . It was originally named the Hôtel d'Avaux after him. In 1688 Paul de Beauviliers, Duc de Saint-Aignan and Colbert's son-in-law , acquired the city palace. He had it rebuilt and enlarged and entrusted André Le Nôtre with the design of the garden. In the 18th century the Hôtel particulier changed hands several times. During the French Revolution , the aristocratic palace became national property . In 1795 the administration of the seventh Municipalité , later the mayor's office of the former 7th arrondissement of Paris, was established here. In 1823 the hotel returned to private ownership and from the middle of the 19th century it was divided into rental apartments, which were mainly occupied by Jewish workers and craftsmen families who had immigrated from Poland, Romania and the Ukraine. In order to create as much living and working space as possible, the building was raised by three floors and numerous extensions were added.
In the 1942 mass raid under German occupation, numerous Jewish residents were arrested and deported , thirteen of whom were killed in concentration camps .
In 1962, the city of Paris acquired the building and set up the city archive there. As part of the restoration work for the new museum, the various extensions and superstructures were demolished and the appearance of the former aristocratic palace from the first half of the 17th century was largely restored.
architecture
Exterior construction
The entrance on Rue du Temple is characterized by a monumental gate with a double-leaf wooden door carved with four Indian heads. A large inner courtyard opens up behind it and is surrounded on four sides by facades of the same design. The lower floor is structured by arched arcades, between which pilasters crowned with Corinthian capitals are arranged. These continue over the first floor to the approach of the upper window. Under the roof approach, a wide protruding from sculpted extends corbels carried cornice . The arch of the central arcade, the entrance to the main building, is decorated with a plaited frieze and a tympanum depicting putti and horns of plenty .
The south facade is overlaid against a wall of the city fortifications by Philippe Auguste (1165–1223) and gives the illusion of a building wing. On the right side there is a passage to the former outbuildings.
inner space
You enter the main building through a vestibule , which is equipped with pilasters and niches for busts. It leads to a monumental staircase that was reconstructed during the restoration of the hotel according to the plans of Le Muet.
The room that adjoins the bookstore and now houses a cafeteria was intended by Le Muet as a dining room and was located near the kitchen. Around 1640, the use of a room specially reserved for meals prevailed in the Hôtels particuliers. During the restoration, grisaille paintings were discovered on the walls and ceiling , dating back to before 1650. Because of the great resemblance to the grisailles in Tanlay Castle , where Pierre Le Muet was also an architect, the paintings are attributed to Rémy Vuibert (1600–1652).
literature
- Yvan Christ, Jacques Silvestre de Sacy, Philippe Siguret: Le Marais . Henri Veyrier, Paris 1974, ISBN 2-85199-117-5 , pp. 265-268.
- Jean Colson, Marie-Christine Lauroa (ed.): Dictionnaire des Monuments de Paris . Paris 2003 (1st edition 1992), ISBN 2-84334-001-2 , p. 654.
- Pierre Kjellberg: Le Guide du Marais . La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris 1967, p. 89. (without ISBN)
Web links
- Ancien Hôtel de Saint-Aignan (ou Hôtel d'Avaux, de Rochechouart, d'Asnières) in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Hôtel de Saint-Aignan (French and English)
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ' N , 2 ° 21' E